Chapter 17--The Progressive Era—Read any pages assigned. Take two-column notes when you read in your regular class text. Be able to define or i.d. any names or terms listed at the beginning of each section. Be able to answer questions in the “Assessment” sections. WRITE the answers to any specific questions listed on this sheet.You will be going a great deal of research on this topic on your own. Be sure to take good notes as you research your topic. In addition, take good notes when others do their presentations.

Big Question:  Evaluate the degree to which Progressivism served the best interests of three of the following groups: a) immigrants & urban poor, b) African-Americans, c) women, d) labor.

Quotes:  “Progressivism, at its heart, was an effort to realize familiar and traditional ideals under novel circumstances…” Richard Hofstadter in The Age of Reform

“…A blend of many ideas…This revolutionary approach to government, incomplete as it was, eventually dominated the politics of the early twentieth century.”Robert Wiebe in The Search for Order

1.Define reform.As you read this chapter, think about Progressives and their view of reform.

#1 – Date ________________

Read Section 1 (Origins of Progressivism) pages 512 - 518.

--Suggested headings: overall goals, protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic

    reform, fostering efficiency, city reforms, state reforms, elections, senators

--Other terms to know:  WCTU, Anti-Saloon League, Keating-Owen Act, Muller v. Oregon, Carry Nation, Hague Opium Treaty, Harrison Narcotics Act, Mann Act

--Gather additional information about the muckrakers on pages 532 – 533.

#2 – Date ______________

Read Sec. 2 (Women in Public Life) pages 519-522.

--Suggested headings:  work, school, new groups, the vote

#3 – Date ___________
Read Sec. 3 (Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal) pages 523 – 531.

--Suggested headings:  background, federal power, strikes, railroads, health, conservation, civil rights

--Other terms to know:  Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Newlands Reclamation Act, National Park Service

2. Jot down a few comments regarding question #2 in the Assessment.

--Pay careful attention to question #5.  We’ll come back to this topic.

#4 – Date ____________

Read Section 4 (Progressivism Under Taft) pages 534 – 537.

--Suggested headings:  background, tariffs, conservation, party problems, election of 1908

--Other terms to know:  Mann-Elkins Act

Why should Taft be labeled the “trustbuster”?

#5 – Date ____________

--Read Section 5 (Wilson’s New Freedom) pages 538 – 545.

--Suggested headings:  background, anti-trust, tariffs, finances, women, civil rights

--Other terms to know:  Underwood Tariff, 16^th Amendment, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, Adamson Act,

    Workmen’s Compensation Act

--Think about #4 in Assessment.